-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-3945 2007-11-29 01:43:08.002822 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gfs-solomos-fonts Product : Fedora 8 Version : 20071114 Release : 2.fc8 URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces19th.html Summary : GFS Solomos oblique Greek font Description : >From the middle of the 19th century an italic font with many calligraphic overtones was introduced into Greek printing. Its source is unknown, but it almost certainly was the product of a German or Italian foundry. In the first type specimen printed in Greece by the typecutter K. Miliadis (1850), the font was listed anonymously along others of 11pts and in the Gr. Doumas' undated specimen appeared as «11pt Greek inclined». For most of the second half of the century the type was used extensively as an italic for emphasis in words, sentences or exerpts. In 1889, the folio size Type Specimen of Anestis Konstantinidis' publishing, printing and type founding establishment also included the type as «Greek inclined [9 & 12 pt]». Nevertheless, the excessively calligraphic style of the characters, combined with the steep and uncomfortable obliqueness of the capitals, was out of favour in the 20th century and the type did not survive the conformity of the mechanical type cutting and casting. The font has been digitally revived, as part of our typographic tradition, by George D. Matthiopoulos and is part of GFS' type library under the name GFS Solomos, in commemoration of the great Greek poet of the 19th century, Dionisios Solomos. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 362cd095364a2a992001d5f37858b5f8ddcc7561 gfs-solomos-fonts-20071114-2.fc8.noarch.rpm d4d0ada258992000a229a6abf58a95516f653591 gfs-solomos-fonts-20071114-2.fc8.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gfs-solomos-fonts' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
